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  • Margaretta Burdick 鈥14
    Margaretta Burdick 鈥14, of Bedford, N.Y.,  has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Turkey, where she will serve as an English teaching assistant in a university setting. A double major in political Science and psychology, Burdick first experienced Turkish culture during a brief trip to Istanbul while she was on Colgate鈥檚 Geneva [鈥
    May 23, 2014
  • Graduates enjoy time with friends and families. (Photo by Andy Daddio)
    Here are some facts and figures from Colgate鈥檚 193rd commencement, held May 18. 鈥 Valedictorian of the Class of 2014 is Alexander W. Hull, of Norwich, Conn. Hull is a chemistry major with a minor in applied mathematics. He graduated summa cum  laude, with high honors in chemistry. He had graduated from Norwich Free Academy [鈥
    May 18, 2014
  • Over spring break, Jessica Huang 鈥14 and Michael Manansala 鈥14 put the capstone on a research project that they鈥檝e been working on for much of their Colgate careers. Traveling to Kansai, Japan, the seniors presented their research titled 鈥淒oes observing or producing different types of hand gestures help second-language auditory learning of Japanese short and [鈥
    April 16, 2014
  • Professor Douglas Johnson
    Douglas Johnson, associate professor of psychology, has received the 2014 Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching and Student Engagement. Faculty, staff, students, university trustees, and friends joined the celebration, which took place March 27 at the Colgate Inn. Established through a gift from Mark Siegel 鈥73, the Balmuth Award recognizes a faculty member whose teaching is [鈥
    April 10, 2014
  • Members of the Class of 2014 seeking careers in the health sciences are now receiving offers of acceptance to medical schools around the country. Brian Chernak 鈥14, of Rochester, N.Y., Nolan Cirillo-Penn 鈥14, of Bridgewater, N.J., Elizabeth Flory 鈥14, of Hanover, N.H., and Tue Nguyen 鈥14, of Vietnam, are just four of the latest students [鈥
    April 9, 2014
  •                 At least two Colgate alumni are running for U.S. Congress: State Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney 鈥83 is running in New York鈥檚 22nd District, and Derek Hyra 鈥96 is running in Virginia鈥檚 8th District. 
    April 3, 2014
  • From building a bomb to acting as historical figures involved in the Manhattan Project through a 鈥淭witter play,鈥 students in the Advent of the Atomic Bomb class have been embracing science and technology 鈥 and connecting with alumni along the way.
    April 2, 2014